About Andy Goldsworthy:

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone ...

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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

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The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

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The early firings contained many stones.

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Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.

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Author Bio

NameAndy Goldsworthy
DescriptionBritish sculptor and photographer
BornJuly 26, 1956
CountryUnited Kingdom
ProfessionPhotographer; Sculptor
Works
AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire

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